Browsing by Subject "Major urban and regional science"
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)The purpose of this study was to develop a comprehensive theory of landscape experience that provides logical explanations for both similar and different landscape evaluations. In order to achieve this purpose, a new ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1980)Planning for the secondary impacts of airport development is a complex process which requires the involvement of agencies at all levels of government as well as private individuals. This dissertation evaluates the effectiveness ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)Recent federal legislation and policy directives have resulted in significant changes in the transportation planning and decision-making process. The Americans with Disabilities Act, the Clean Air Act Amendments, and the ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)Continuity among architectural structures in the urban setting is an often cited component of visual attractiveness. Since urban tourism is essentially based on visual attractiveness, architectural continuity is an important ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)Integration of hydrologic modeling into a GIS environment can help optimize the use of available digital data while improving the simulation of basin-wide effects of management decisions. This research demonstrates the ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)Section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959, administered by HUD, has enabled a number of African American church-affiliated organizations in the United States to develop low income housing for the elderly and disabled of their ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)In recent years planning academicians, design professionals, and those specifically involved in land development have expressed a growing interest in improving their understanding of the processes and interrelationships ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)This study attempts to identify the religious norms that governed and continue to govern the development of spatial form in Muslim cities, as a precept to formulating, anew. Islamic urban principles and determining their ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)The purpose of this research was tc investigate the feasibility of utilizing selfhelp housing approaches to im prove the low-income housing delivery system in Malaysia. Squatters were identified as the unit of measurement ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)Based on Galtung's theory of information flow, this study attempted to discover something about the role information (as measured by the number of information services/ centers) may play in the socio-economic development ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1995)Excessive staff turnover is a serious impediment to the delivery of high quality, cost effective health care. This research seeks to identify factors which affect, and possibly predict, turnover behavior. In this research, ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1979)This research identifies the current status of environmental planning within the United States Army in other than public works, the relationship of such planning to Federal mandates and Army directives, problem areas in ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1979)The citizen participation programs of two federal public works projects were evaluated using the case method approach--the North Expressway, San Antonio, Texas (the Federal Highway Administration and the Texas Highway ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)The ability to analyze travel demand relationships and forecast future travel is necessary to clarify the issues that should be considered by decision makers and to assist them in making transportation service decisions. ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1995)About 3500 million hectares of land--an area the size of North and South America combined--are affected by desertification or land converting to desert under the impact of man's activities. This figure excludes expansion ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)The demand for historic preservation continues to grow as the potential economic as well as the social and cultural benefits of these activities become more recognized by preservationists, public and private sectors, and ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1988)Exploratory data analysis procedures were used to study the primary data obtained from a nation-wide survey of 569 factory-built housing companies. The independent variables in the research included (initially) 25 measures ...
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Integrated forecasting analysis for comprehensive urban planning using vector autoregressive model (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)Many urban problems are attributed to inappropriate comprehensive planning which fails to account for the dynamic and inter-related nature of urban activities in its forecasts. While many studies have attempted to integrate ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1979)This study has been conducted to help state 4-H coordinators realize the importance of current youth development data in the camp program planning process. 4-H camping and leisure education programs should be planned and ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1990)Accelerated population growth in general and increasing expanse and intensity of metropolitan development throughout the world have focused attention on urban and public transportation and growth management in some form. ...